MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY

MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

REGULATIONS and SCHEME for

AFFILIATED COLLEGES and SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY AND APPLIED SCIENCES (From 2011 admission onwards)

1. Conditions for Admission Qualifications i) A candidate seeking admission to MCA course must have
A pass with not less than 50% marks in any recognized regular Bachelor's Degree course of minimum three years duration in any discipline with Mathematics at 10+2 level. OR A pass with not less than 50% marks in any recognized Regular Bachelors Degree course of minimum three years duration in any discipline with Mathematics/Statistics(this does not include Business Mathematics or Business Statistics) as one of the Subjects. OR A pass with not less than 50% marks in BCA degree of minimum three years duration from a recognized University.

ii) Subject to the regulation relating to prescribed minimum of the respective qualifying examination, the minimum marks of admission to the course of studies shall be a pass in the case of SC/ST candidates. iii) Candidates belonging to Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) referred to GO(P)208/66/Edn dated. 2-5-96 and subsequent amendments to order issued by the Government shall be given a relaxation of 2% marks in the prescribed minimum for admission. iv) A relaxation of 5% marks from the prescribed minimum shall be allowed in the case of physically handicapped persons. v) Candidates who have passed the qualifying examination in more than one chance in the subject (excluding languages) will have their percentage marks derated at the rate of 5% for every additional appearance for the purpose of ranking.

Candidates with such degrees awarded by the Mahatma Gandhi University or any other degree recognized as equivalent to degrees in ( i ) by the Mahatma Gandhi University also are eligible to apply. Reservation of seats shall be as per rules prescribed in the relevant rules by the Directorate of Technical Education, Government of Kerala. 2 Duration of the Course : The course shall extend over a period of three academic years consisting of six semesters. 3. Requirements of attendance and progress : A candidate will be deemed to have completed the course of any semester only if 2

a) He has put in not less than 75% of attendance. b) His progress and conduct have been satisfactory. 4. Procedure for completing the Course : i. The academic year will be divided into two semesters, the odd semester normally commencing at the beginning of the academic year and even semester ending with the academic year. ii. The course work in the subjects of study of the odd semesters will ordinarily be conducted only in odd semesters and that of even semesters only in even semesters. iii. A candidate may proceed to the course of study of any semester if and only if he has completed the course in the previous semester and has registered for the examination of the previous semester. iv. A candidate who is required to repeat the course of any semester for want of attendance / progress or who desires to rejoin the semester after a period of discontinuance or who upon his own request is specially permitted to repeat the semester in order to improve his performance, may be permitted to join the semester for which he is eligible or permitted to join. 5. Assessment : i) The assessment will comprise of sessional assessment and university examination in certain subjects, and wholly sessional assessments in others, carrying marks as specified in the subject of study and scheme of assessment. ii) A candidate shall be declared to have passed in any subject in full in any semester if he/she secures not less than 50% marks in sessional, not less than 40% marks in the University examination including project and viva and not less than 50% of the over all aggregate marks for the subject ie., university examination marks and sessional marks of the subjects put together. iii) A student may be given the option to improve the marks obtained in theory subjects of any semester (except the sixth semester) by canceling all the theory examinations of the semester. There will be no provision to improve the sessional marks of any semester unless he repeats the semester. vi) University examinations will be conducted at the end of each semester for subjects offered during the semester. v) Semester examinations will normally be conducted in October/November and in April/May of each year. vi) All Sessional work shall be valued and marks awarded on the basis of day to day performance, periodic tests and assignments. The allocation of sessional marks for individual subjects shall be on the following basis.

Theory Subjects Attendance Assignments /Seminar 10% 30%

Practicals Attendance Regular class work / Lab record / Class Performance Tests Total 10%

50% 40% 100%

Tests Total

60% 100%

The sessional marks allotted for attendance shall be awarded in direct proportion to the percentage of attendance secured by the candidate in the subject. However, full sessional marks for attendance shall be awarded to those who are securing 80% of the attendance and above. 6. Normalization of Sessional Marks For the MCA course, the maximum internal marks(awarded internally) and external marks(awarded by external examiner appointed by the university) for all theory / practical papers shall be 25 and 75 respectively, except for the following papers. MCA107, MCA108, MCA506, MCA507, MCA508. To enforce uniformity in the awarding of internal marks by all institutions, there is a need to stipulate rules for normalizing the marks so that the abnormal and unjust variations in sessional marks are controlled to a reasonable extent. For MCA 108, MCA 507 and MCA 508, having only sessional assessment, the Head of the institution should ensure that the class average does not exceed 80%. For the remaining papers the following normalization method shall be implemented by the University. Normalization Method The maximum percentage of internal marks of a candidate shall be limited to 40% above that of external marks secured by the candidate. In the case of a candidate who fails to get the pass minimum or absent for external examination for a paper, the normalized internal marks shall be computed only when he/she gets through the new external examination and the internal marks will be computed as per the new external marks. Internal Maximum marks External Maximum marks Maximum Marks Overall Maximum marks Illustration 25 Pass minimum - 12.5 75 Pass minimum 30 25 Pass Minimum - 10 100 Pass minimum - 50

External Max. % of Marks awarded Percentage internal Reg. out of 75 eligible No. (% of external+40%) 1 40 53% 93 15(failed) 20% 2 30(Next 40% 80% appearance) 3 4 60(Next appearance) 80% 100 60 Absent 80% 100 -

Internal awarded by college 20 22

Internal marks after normalization

20 20(limited to 80%) 21 18

21 18

The above shall be computed using software and the normalized internal marks in the last column shall be carried over to the mark list. 7. University Exam Question Paper Pattern The pattern shall comprise of 2 parts: PART A (10 x 3=30 marks) and PART B (5 x 9=45 marks). Part A shall have 30 marks, in which the student is expected to answer 10 short questions (3 marks each) out of 12 questions evenly prepared from all the five modules. These questions can consist of definitions, theoretical concepts, short illustrative examples, block schematics etc.. Part B shall have 2 questions from each module, out of which the student has to answer one from each module (9 marks). These can be descriptive type questions, derivations, problems or collection of 2 or more smaller questions in a topic. This offers 50% choice to the students, yet forces him to study all the five modules.

8 Passing requirements/classification of successful candidates i) A candidate shall be declared to have passed in any subject if he/she satisfies clause 5(ii) above. a) If any candidate fails in want of either minimum marks for university examination or minimum marks for overall aggregate for any subject, he/she can appear for the supplementary examination at the ensuing chance only in the failed subjects alone. b) If any candidate fails in want of minimum marks for sessional part alone for any subject, he/she has to write supplementary examination for both the sessional part and university examination in the ensuing chance only in the failed subjects alone. Sessional part of such candidates may be evaluated by the institution, considering the marks for attendance already obtained, but new assessment should be done for seminar/assignment and tests along with the subsequent batch. The new sessional mark has to be forwarded to the university along with the sessional marks of subsequent batch. c) If any candidate fails in MCA 108, MCA 507 & MCA 508, having only sessional assessment, he/she has to redo the work for that subject along with the subsequent batch. ii) A candidate who successfully completes the course and satisfy all the passing requirements of the six semesters within six academic years of joining the course will be declared to have qualified for the degree. However, in exceptional cases with genuine and convincing reasons, it is the discretion of the syndicate of the University to effect changes in this regard. iii) A candidate who qualifies for the degree and secures not less than 75% of the aggregate of total marks of all the six semesters in the first attempt in all the subjects shall be declared to have passed the MCA Degree examination in First Class with Distinction. iv) A candidate who qualifies for the degree and secures not less than 60% of the aggregate of total marks of all the six semesters shall be declared to have passed the MCA Degree examination in First Class . v) All other successful candidates shall be declared to have passed the MCA Degree examination in Second Class. vi) Successful candidates who complete the examinations with Distinction shall be ranked on the basis of the aggregate of the total marks of all six semesters. 9 Revision of Regulations The University may from time to time revise, amend or change the regulations, curriculum, scheme of examinations and syllabi. These changes unless specified other wise will have effect from the beginning of the semester following the notification by the University.

SCHEME
I Semester Course No. Subject MCA 101 MCA 102 MCA 103 MCA 104 MCA 105 MCA 106 MCA 107 MCA 108 Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science Digital Systems & Logic Design Computer Organization and Architecture Principles of Management and Accounting Structured Programming in C C Programming Lab PC Hardware Lab Communication & Soft skills Total No. of hours per week Lect Lab. 4 Duration of Exam in hrs 3 Sessional Marks Max. 25 Sem. Exam. Marks Max 75 Total Mark

100

4 4 4

3 3 3

25 25 25

75 75 75

100 100 100

4 20

4 2 2 8

3 3 2

25 25 25 50

75 75 25

100 100 50 50 700

II Semester No. of hours per week Lect Lab. 4 4 Duration of Exam in hrs 3 3 Sessional Marks Max. 25 25 Sem. Exam. Marks Max 75 75 Total Mark

Course No. MCA 201 MCA 202 MCA 203 MCA 204 MCA 205 MCA 206 MCA 207

Subject Probability and Statistics Data Structures and Analysis of Computer Algorithms Microprocessors and Embedded Systems Operating Systems Object Oriented Programming with C++ C++ Lab Data Structures Lab in C Total

100 100

4 4 4

3 3 3

25 25 25

75 75 75

100 100 100

20

4 4 8

3 3

25 25

75 75

100 100 700

III Semester No. of hours per week Lect Lab. 4 4 4 4 4 20 4 4 8 Duration of Exam in hrs 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Sessional Marks Max. 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 Sem. Exam. Marks Max 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 Total Mark

Course No. MCA 301 MCA 302 MCA 303 MCA 304 MCA 305 MCA 306 MCA 307

Subject

Java and Web Programming Software Engineering System Software Data Base Management Systems Data Communications Java Programming Lab DBMS Lab Total

100 100 100 100 100 100 100 700

IV Semester No. of hours per week Lect Lab. 4 4 4 4 4 20 4 4 8 Duration of Exam in hrs 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Sessional Marks Max. 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 Sem. Exam. Marks Max 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 Total Mark

Course No. MCA 401 MCA 402 MCA 403 MCA 404 MCA 405 MCA 406 MCA 407

Subject Operations Research Computer Networks Linux and Shell Programming Object Oriented Modeling and Design Elective- I Linux Lab Open Source Lab Python/PHP Total

100 100 100 100 100 100 100 700

V Semester No. of hours per week Lect Lab. 4 4 4 4 4 20 2 2 4 8 Duration of Exam in hrs 3 3 3 3 3 2 Sessional Marks Max. 25 25 25 25 25 25 50 100 Sem. Exam. Marks Max 75 75 75 75 75 25 Total Mark

Course No. MCA 501 MCA 502 MCA 503 MCA 504 MCA 505 MCA 506 MCA 507 MCA 508

Subject Computer Security Internet Technology and Distributed Applications Computer Graphics Data Mining Elective - II Computer Graphics Lab Seminar Mini Project Total

100 100 100 100 100 50 50 100 700

VI Semester No. of hours per week Lect Lab. 28 28 Duration of Exam in hrs Sessional Marks Max. 200 Sem. Exam. Marks Max 200 100 Total Mark

Course No. MCA 601 MCA 602

Subject Project Viva-voce Total

400 100 500

ELECTIVE-I
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Visual Programming Software Quality Management Business Data Processing & COBOL Programming Enterprise Resource Planning Multimedia Systems Neural Networks & Fuzzy Logic Artificial Intelligence Management Information Systems

ELECTIVE-II
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. User Interface Design Bioinformatics Digital Image Processing Advanced Computing Paradigms XML & Web Services Distributed Computing Embedded Systems Genetic Algorithms